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    "localId": "118262",
    "label": "Silk Fragment",
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}

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    "id": "118262",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Silk Fragment",
    "date": "1300s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.36",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80013120"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.36/1939.36_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average: 36.9 x 70.8 cm (14 1/2 x 27 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, Islamic period"
    ],
    "accession": "1939.36"
}

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    "tec": "silk: diasper weave",
    "tombstone": "Silk Fragment, 1300s. Spain, Islamic period. Silk: diasper weave; average: 36.9 x 70.8 cm (14 1/2 x 27 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.36",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Naskhi inscription: \"Glory to our Lord, the Sultan.\""
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (November 1939): 143–146.",
            "page_number": "p. 143",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25138043"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 173",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n42"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.36",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:07:23.236000",
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    "sourceId": 118262,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "silk: diasper weave",
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    "image_url": null
}

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